Iran's Latest Hit: Bootleg 'Argo' DVDs

On a recent evening in Tehran, a movie night among friends turned into a heated political debate: Could Iran and the U.S. ever get past the hostage crisis of 1979?

The group had just finished watching a bootleg DVD of "Argo," the Hollywood hit depicting the 444-day siege by Iranian students of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, and the story of how the Central Intelligence Agency extracted six diplomats at the height of the...